Hunger Comments
It was hard to believe the flesh was heavy on my back.
The fisherman said: Will you have her, carelessly,
trailing his nets and his nerves, as though his words
sanctified the purpose with which he faced himself.
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The poem though highlighting the woman trafficking and flesh trade side by side this poverty and impoverished living conditions of the people living below the poverty line has so much to tell indirectly. Hunger is about sexual gratification, the fulfillment of voluptuous, craving for the body and sexual hunger. It is about life, human conditions, compulsions letting one do.
Hunger as a poem is not all about the hunger of the belly, but about the fulfillment of sexual and greed though not sure of the poetic persona speaking in the writerly self. Who the men in the shadows? In the dark? The fisherman tired of drawing the nets and the load of the poor family living on the sea beach offers his teenage daughter to the stranger customer which is really tragic but with no reactions from the writer.
Its a great poem. It shows how hunger for food and survival is greater than anything else.
Why the father is forcing to have her? If a person feels hungry he/she should follow other way to fulfil their hunger.
Why the father is forcing to have her? If a person feels hungry he/she should follow to fulfil their hunger.
Most powerful verse of Jayanta Mahaputra. This poem of his is really tremendous.
Hunger nortures the creation and literature.The poet admits.
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7/18/2025 5:02:22 AM # 1.0.0
A great poem, describing hunger in its manifold forms.You need to be cool and inside to be able to feel the thread of the kind of poem it is. Such was Jayanta Sir.